“And so, dear reader, know that at this moment of your reading this text, you are also touching the Mystery, the Nobody, at the center of your language-charged silence. I, the supposed author, about whom you may have formed some impression entirely of your own making, am not now talking to you. At the moment of your reading, amazingly enough, although I seem to be present, I am elsewhere, doing something else. I am unaware of who you are, and I don’t know that you are reading these words now. And yet, at this moment, the moment when I am composing these words - a moment long past for you but immediate to me now - I am as close to myself, and to you, as it is humanly possible to be.”
Norman Fischer from “Why I Have to Write”
(updated winter 2012)
